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Five questions for the 'hit tape' architect

"The term “hit tape” actually came from the Dan McCarney era. The football video coordinator would create the hit tape as a motivational video for the team to see the night before the game. We stumbled across them two years ago."

"It's nice to get positive feedback on something you worked so hard to do. It's fun to see people's responses, like 'it gave me goosebumps,' or 'it brought me to tears.' A lot of the criticism comes from the choice of music. I like to switch it up, week to week. Sometimes it's an instrumental, sometimes it's a rock song with lyrics. It's hard to please everyone, because everyone has different taste in music."

"The term “hit tape” actually came from the Dan McCarney era. The football video coordinator would create the hit tape as a motivational video for the team to see the night before the game. We stumbled across them two years ago."

"It's nice to get positive feedback on something you worked so hard to do. It's fun to see people's responses, like 'it gave me goosebumps,' or 'it brought me to tears.' A lot of the criticism comes from the choice of music. I like to switch it up, week to week. Sometimes it's an instrumental, sometimes it's a rock song with lyrics. It's hard to please everyone, because everyone has different taste in music."

Yup every Friday night after our team meeting and right before we had to head to our hotel rooms we would watch the hit tape.

Re: Five questions for the 'hit tape' architect

whoever drummed up the plan for the homecoming hittape should be given free CLONE CONES for life... favorite one in a long time

She says in the article that she had that idea for awhile.

How long does it take to do a hit tape, start to finish?

I have a lot of other responsibilities -- football isn't the only sport we're covering -- so it happens throughout the week. Some weeks, I definitely have an idea of what we want to do -- like the homecoming video -- but it really depends on what the team does the Saturday before.

Re: Five questions for the 'hit tape' architect

Originally Posted by cychosis

"It's nice to get positive feedback on something you worked so hard to do. It's fun to see people's responses, like 'it gave me goosebumps,' or 'it brought me to tears.' A lot of the criticism comes from the choice of music. I like to switch it up, week to week. Sometimes it's an instrumental, sometimes it's a rock song with lyrics. It's hard to please everyone, because everyone has different taste in music."

Great point and fun to read because I just laugh to myself at all the people who groan week to week about music choice and clamor for it the next. People just need to realize some of us like Alternative, Rock, Metal, Rap, Instrumental, etc...I am glad that the hit tapes find a way to mix it up. I like a certain genre best myself but would absolutely HATE if all 12+ hit tapes came with that same type of music. They really do a great job.

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